unit 2 Flashcards
Occurs when the number of people exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living.
Overpopulation
The single most important data source for population in geography.
Census
When homeless people, ethnic minorities, and citizens of other countries do not have proper immigration documents and may be less likely to complete census forms.
Nonparticipation
Can be utilized to get a more accurate count, as well as identify detailed characteristics of of people, housing, and businesses.
Sampling
The total number of objects in an area.
Arithmetic Density
In a region, the number of people supported by a unit area of arable land.
Psychological Density
The ratio of the number of the number of farmers to the amount of arable land.
Agricultural Density
Total number of live births in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society.
Crude Birth Rate (CBR)
The total number of deaths in a year for every 1000 people alive in the society.
Crude Death Rate (CDR)
The scientific study of population characteristics.
Demography
The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years.
Total Fertility Rate (TFR)
A process of change in a society’s population from high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and higher total population.
Demographic Transition
Major improvements in manufacturing goods and delivering them to market.
Industrial Revolution
The late twentieth-century push of developing countries into stage 2 was caused by this.
Medical Revolution
